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Obama’s Nameless War With a Nameless Enemy
Islamism as such might as well not exist — except inside his Administration.
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A further appointee is Mohamed Elibiary, who in October 2010 was elevated by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to the Homeland Security Advisory Council. Elibiary has spoken in praise of Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamist Iranian republic, and is believed to have leaked sensitive intelligence documents.
The Obama State Department has also permitted Islamists to speak abroad on behalf of the U.S. and to participate in government outreach programs. In February 2010, it sent MPAC’s Salam Al-Marayati to address UNESCO in Paris and the U.S. mission to the United Nations in Geneva. This month, Marayati served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the U.S. to a human rights conference held by the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe. On any reasonable accounting, Marayati’s record should have disqualified him from such appointments and, indeed, as far back as 1999, revelations regarding his record to that date did indeed do just that when his appointment to a congressional panel on terrorism was rescinded. Someone who has condemned as “illegal, immoral and illogical” the U.S. strikes against al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Sudan following the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; and who, following September 11, 2001 attacks, declared that Israel, whose creation he had described in 1993 as an “injustice” which he vowed to “work to overturn,” should be “put… on the suspect list” of possible 9/11 perpetrators, should never have been considered for, much less awarded, these appointments.
Marayati’s appointment is not exceptional. In August 2010, the Administration sent Faisal Rauf, the would-be 9/11 mosque imam, on a nearly month-long speaking tour of Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Rauf has a wealth of Islamist associations, has refused to condemn Hamas and blamed America as an “accessory” for 9/11 and other acts of Islamist terror. Contrary to State Department assertions that it did not “expect” Rauf to fund-raise for his proposed mosque while abroad, Rauf indicated that he would be collecting money from Muslim and Arab nations on his trip. Tellingly, the State Department released few details of his trip and speaking engagements, despite requests from journalists.
Kifah Mustafa is another Islamist who was permitted to participate in a government outreach program, the FBI Citizen Academy. Here, too, a clear record of extremism should have precluded his participation: Mustapha had already been in 2007 and 2008 as an un-indicted coconspirator as a registered agent for Holy Land Foundation, a Hamas fund-raising front closed by the Bush administration after “the largest terrorism financing prosecution in American history.” Evidence produced in court showed Mustapha to have participated in a fundraising troupe singing “‘I am a member of Hamas’ as well as other songs glorifying violence and inciting the murder of Jews.” FBI director Robert Mueller subsequently declined to explain Mustafa’s participation, which included a tour of the top-secret National Counterterrorism Center, FBI headquarters in Washington D.C., and the FBI training academy at Quantico.
Outreach has also involved legitimizing Islamists abroad. In November 2010, the U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Louis B. Susman, paid a visit to the East London mosque, a hotbed of Islamism controlled by the Jammat-e-Islami group, whose program proclaims the goal of Islamizing the United Kingdom. The mosque’s website quoted Ambassador Susman declaring his “great admiration” for the mosque and President Obama’s desire to “to reach out to Muslim communities.” This visit proceeded despite the East London mosque being embroiled in controversy in Britain at that very moment over its support for al Qaida in Yemen leader Awlaki.
In short, the Administration has sought to embrace Islamists at home and abroad and a clear, public record of extremism has not impeded the rise within the Obama Administration of a number of Islamist and pro-Islamist figures. This did not happen overnight; a congenial environment in the Washington policy world merely laid the groundwork for their flourishing in the Obama Administration. For example, Rauf and Mogahed served on the Leadership Group on U.S.-Muslim Engagement, which in September 2008 issued a report, ‘Changing Course: A New Direction for U.S. Relations With the Muslim World,’ urging the U.S. Government to engage Islamist groups in the Middle East, especially the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. This is, of course, precisely what Obama has done since arriving in office. More recently, indeed, up to the moment of writing, his Administration has approved the transfer of weaponry by Saudi Arabia and Qatar to Muslim Brotherhood forces fighting the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad — precisely the sort of forces likely to carry out bloodbaths of their own upon victory and least likely to ensure a stable, pro-Western orientation in the future.
Other have written of the political consequences of Obama’s policy to engage the Muslim world by pretending that there is no conflict with it, and that Islamists, if they are only non-violent, can be wooed into accommodation with U.S. and pose no threat to the interests of America or its allies. But a short summary is possible: the result has been a weak, temporizing approach to depredations of radical Middle East regimes (Iran, Syria); engaging Islamists & encouraging the replacement of pro-American regimes (Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen); ignoring the hostility of regimes in formerly pro-American states (Turkey); and pressuring Israel for unilateral concessions and straining U.S.-Israeli relations, while indulging an intransigent Palestinian Authority.
At the end of four years, dangerous and hostile governments endure in Tehran and Damascus, despite their deep unpopularity. Islamist regimes rule in Cairo and Tunis and may yet do so in Damascus and Sana’a if the U.S. continues backing the Muslim Brotherhood. Palestinians remain undeviating in their non-acceptance of Israel. The Middle East map has changed, not for the better, and picking up the pieces will be the unavoidable and unenviable task of Barack Obama’s successor — whoever and whenever that may be.
About the Author
Daniel Mandel is a Fellow in History at Melbourne University and author of H. V. Evatt and the Establishment of Israel: The Undercover Zionist (Routledge, London, 2004). His blog can be found on the History News Network.
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Pecos Pete| 10.24.12 @ 6:54AM
The middle east is a boiling tempest supported and partially funded by the Obama Administration. Re-election of King O will not resolve nor improve conditions in the middle east. I'm not sure that election of Romney/Ryan would improve conditions there but certainly re-election of King O will NOT improve conditions.
Von Mises Jr| 10.24.12 @ 7:16AM
Romney's "Five Point Plan" includes drilling for oil and natural gas. Increased drilling and enhanced trade with Canada, Mexico and South America can create the largest oil producing region in the world turning OPEC's 40% monopoly into a death spiral. These nations produce nothing but oil and terror, and the latter does not pay well.
Mitt also talked about conditions on all aid and to refrain from borrowing from China (or printing money) to pay for non-essentials. Funding the Muslim Brotherhood is probably not at the top of the list for a Mormon and Catholic conservative President and Vice President.
chuck| 10.24.12 @ 7:44AM
Get the Democrats out of the way, and we could produce enough energy here in the US to completely supply ourselves, and the jobs produced would drastically lower unemployment, lower social spending cost, increase tax revenues, balance the budget, and as a small side-benefit, starve the Devil-worshipping terrorists of their life-blood-money.
I lived in Houston, have a Chemical Engineering degree, have family in the oil business. I know what I'm talking about. The oil glut of the early '80s, and the resultant drop in prices was due to the massive oil production of the late 70's and early '80s. Worked then, will work now.
Von Mises Jr| 10.24.12 @ 8:05AM
I have considered moving to somewhere that will embrace drilling when Romney is President. In these locations and states such as SC and TN that are "right to work" states is where the jobs will start opening.
The Marsalis Shale opening will probably bring jobs to OH and PA, while Upstate NY will probably remain a depressed remnant of the past since I cannot see Albany or the huge population in NYC embrace energy production.
CJW| 10.24.12 @ 10:15AM
Von
The Marcellus shale drilling has created about 60,000 to 80,000 jobs in Pa, many in southwest Pa, such as Washington County. I personally know about executives, attorneys, HR, in addition to the drillers, drivers, mechanics getting jobs. There are billboards advertising for jobs such as commercial drivers, mechanics, and other skilled trades. Restaurants are busy, real estate agents are busy, and real estate rentals are busy.
There seems to be a slowdown now because of the glut of supply and not enough demand due to the weak economy.
We need some car company to make efficient safe cars that turn on natural gas that we have.
Alej| 10.24.12 @ 9:55AM
The drop in oil prices, highlighted by $9.45/barrel in late January 1986, was a result of Reagan's deal with the Saudis, to furnish them with military toys (they like to collect them, but don't have the guts to use them; they all hauled a$$ to Paris when Iraq invaded Kuwait) at proportionate low cost. This deal put finis to the staggering Soviet Union's oil-export based economy.
But no doubt increased domestic production will affect price at the pump. And stop financing Islam.
Jack in Wi| 10.24.12 @ 8:30AM
Drill drill drill here. The enemy is Zionism not Islamism. The Muslims don't control both political parties, the banks, Congress, both candidates for President, the Press and Hollywood. Look how both candidates for President groveled before the Israeli lobby in the debate on Monday night. Islam was a quiet backwater until we went in there and stirred up the hornets nest 70 years ago. I am voting for Romney. Deep down I don't think he wants to be bossed around by this gang, if he is elected. Obama has already proven that he is nothing but tool of Zionism his whole political career. I am willing to roll the dice on Romney and hope he flip flops on this issue like he has on everthing else. He is rich enough to be his own man. He also does not want to end up a total failure on foreign policy like G. W. Bush and Obama. Anyone that appoints Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Joe Biden vice President, and Rahm Emmanuel Chief of Staff doesn' not deserve to be re-elected.
Alan| 10.24.12 @ 8:43AM
"tool of Zionism" Yeah you insipid asshole, that why he has had a parade of Muslim radicals visiting the WH for the last 4 years. fcking lunatic.
Alej| 10.24.12 @ 9:59AM
Like x5. Especially the adjectives.
Dave Williams| 10.24.12 @ 9:30AM
Get lost, you f*cking anti-Semitic prick.
Occam's Tool| 10.24.12 @ 11:17AM
Thank ou, Dave.
You know, on most things non-religious I agree with you. But I can have a civilized argument with you on that, too. You are a good guy and decent human being, as are most of this site's commenters.
Usually, I don't use foul language, and neither do you. But this execresence, like his buddy Clint, is annoying as hell.
Jack is just a piece of filth. Despicable.
I'd rather have RCV and even King of The Net around (although King dislikes Jews, as well). Occasionally one can converse with them. Jack just writes like he's in an advanced state of neurosyphilis.
By the way, Dave, might I mention that you are a peach?
TLP| 10.24.12 @ 1:29PM
Usually, I don't use Foul Language?
What?
Lately, you've been Mr. Potty Mouth around here.
I was beginning to think that you were having a Mid-Life Turrets Syndrome Crises.
Psychiatrist, heal thyself.
I was starting to think that I had become a Bad Influence.
Keep it up.
I like it.
RCV| 10.24.12 @ 5:59PM
Boy, talk about damning with faint praise, Occam.
TLP| 10.24.12 @ 6:12PM
Boy, talk about a Dumbass.
RCV| 10.24.12 @ 11:58PM
A Dumbass is someone who believes that God sent Adolph Hitler to punish and cleanse the Jews with the Holocaust. That would be you, TLP, as lunatic as Jack and cut from the same cloth.
chuck| 10.24.12 @ 8:52PM
Ditto, Dave.
Hopefully the anti-Semitic, Mooslim c*ck-sucking POS will go see Satan,AKA Allah, and be with his devil-worshiping friends really soon.
Occam's Tool| 10.24.12 @ 11:13AM
Jack, Am Chai Yisroel, and the Packers are gonna get their asses kicked this year.
Go off and play with your child raping friends, scumbag.
Jack in Wi| 10.24.12 @ 2:20PM
Thank you boys for making my day. The truth will set you free. Everytime the usual suspects start squealing I know I am doing my job. The 1st World War was started over the idea of Greater Serbia. The 2nd World War was started over the idea of Greater Germany. The 3rd World War will be started over the idea of Greater Israel if we let it happen. You will notice that Serbia and Germany ended up in ashes. I answer is peace and friendship not a big walled Ghetto surrounded by neighbors who hate you. Peace, Peace, Peace. War is for losers. Shalom.
Alan| 10.24.12 @ 3:13PM
"I know I am doing my job"
Yep, if doing your job consists of showing up here every day and self patronizing yourself as the central display in the anti-semitic monkey zoo and getting peanuts and fruit thrown at you, your doing a fine job, so well you might want to give yourself a big fat raise and while your at it give yourself a big hand and then go jackoff somewhere about how wonderful you are, fretzuitze!
Alan| 10.25.12 @ 8:51AM
One more thought nitwit, if coming on here and making an @SS out of yourself somehow "makes your day" then I really wouldn't want to see what the rest of your day looks like. Kleiitse der Teeklliewer fool!
RCV| 10.24.12 @ 2:23PM
Anyone who believes that Zionism is America's enemy rather than Islamic fanaticism is a deluded antisemite. Jack, I don't what in your background led you to this abiding hatred of Jews, but I wish you'd had the young parish priest I had when I was a young altar boy. Whenever he would hear some young parishioner mouthing some remark about "those Jews" he would grab them by the collar, look them in the eye and say, "Listen you moron. Jesus himself was a Jew, and you'll have to answer to Him someday for that hateful remark. Better be on time for Confession next week. You and I need to have a long talk."
Jack in Wi| 10.24.12 @ 3:43PM
MY God, Lord, Savior, and The Prince of Peace Jesus said ." Blessed are the peacemakers. Love your neighbors as yourselves. Those who live by the sword will die by the sword. What you do to the least of my brothers you do unto me. Turn the other cheek and turn it again. " God in the Book of Leviticus tells the Jews. " Love your neighbors as yourselves. " In an other place in the book He says. Love the aliens and strangers among you as you do yourselves. " In the Book of Exodus God tells the Jews. " To love the aliens and strangers among you for you were once aliens and strangers in the land of Egypt. " God gave the Jews a great mission. To bring forth the Truth about the One True God. To give his 10 Commandments to the world. To bring forth the Messiah of the Whole World. That mission has been completed for 2000 years. It is time to get with God's plan. Love and respect your neighbors as yourselves and follow Jesus and his teachings. The Muslims are your neighbors.
Alan| 10.24.12 @ 4:01PM
"The Muslims are your neighbors"
Actually my neighbors are the Benson's and the Kosoloskis, both non muslims, and I intend to keep it that way as long as possible. Your pious holy man routine? Its really, really so not you.
Oldefarte| 10.24.12 @ 9:05PM
You are an insane and traitorous AH! "The enemy is Zionism not Islamism" is the most asinine statement that I have ever witnessed here, and you should be placed inside a mental institution or a federal prison [but of course, with this Islamist supported regime that captured this nation on 11/4/08, WTF would ever do so; in fact you'd no doubt be given the Medal of Honor instead by the CHECKERED-TABLECLOTH GANG]. Did Zionism ram four commendeered airplanes into the WTC, Pentagon and Pennsylvania that incinerated 3000 innocents on 9/11/01? Did Zionists ram a GD dingy loaded with explosives into the USS Cole that murdered 20 US sailors? Did Zionists motor-attack our consulate in Benghazi and RAPE AND MURDER four diplomatic Americans on 9/11/12? No and never, you stupid AH! Get your GD head out of your Paulistic butt and grow a patriotic pair, or either go down to LJ and bicycle semi-nude with ya boy while counting his $millions from you lemmistic morons giving your life saving in payment for his newsletter subscriptions. Yeah, Zionist are the real enemy alright, those Jewish bastard bankers, doctors, lawyers, business magnates, and leaders of all industries who pay $trillions in taxes from their EARNED WEALTH [just like Romney's] are a real GD national security problem for this country [oh and also, THE COW JUMPED OVER THE MOON, WHILE THE DISH RAN AWAY WITH THE SPOON]!!!!
TLP| 10.24.12 @ 7:33AM
All this stuff with Muslims. (But he's not a Muslim)
All this stuff with all these Islamist Loving Muslims, scattered all around his Administration. (But he's not a Muslim)
His #1 Guy - Vaerrie Jarret - is from Iran. His Secretary of State's #1 Guy - Huma Abedin - is up to her Twat Hairs in the Muslim Brotherhood. And, he has Islamist Supporters crawling around at Homeland Security, DOD, the FBI, and up his ass. (But he's not a Muslim)
He's been to every Pedophile Worshipping Country there is, and yet he has not deigned the Non Pedophile Worshipping Country - Israel - with his Gay Bathhouse Prescence. (But he's not a Gay Muslim)
C'mon.
The Muslim, is a Muslim. The guy named after Mohammed's Horse is a Muslim. His Father was a Muslim. His Stepfather was a Muslim. He was raised in the Muslim Schools and Mosques of Muslim Indonesia, where he was Adopted by his Muslim Stepfather.
Hamas believes that The Muslim is their Messiah. They believe that their god of Murder sent him to Deliver Jerusalem to them, and Destroy the Jews.
He thinks that the Muslim call to Prayer is the most beautiful sound in the world. And, he has Fundamentally Transformed NASA in to a MUSLIM OUTREACH PROGRAM.
We need to get this MFer and his Orangoutang looking Wife the Hell outta here, and then Fumigate the place for about a Month.
Alan| 10.24.12 @ 8:11AM
We have to ask ourselves, which is the more evil, the liar(the Kenyan marxist/muzzie) or those(media) who knowingly perpetuate the lies. Anybody with a funtioning brain should know after 4 years what loathsome creature inhabits our highest office, but its the media whores and their minions that deserve a special place in hell IMO for enabling this tin horn. The concept of going to journalism school to report facts and truth and then emerging to become an ideological prostitute shows the power of leftist infection in the educational system. It has to be eradicated.
TLP| 10.24.12 @ 10:30AM
I'm thinking Albert, with the Final Roundup of every Friday's Contest.
That is way more Evil and Insidious.
Alan| 10.24.12 @ 11:28AM
We all know who this treasonous sot is in the white house, lying is just one of his tools. He is what he is. Its the whores, stool pidgeons, honor prostitutes and boot lickers in the media, who, are kind of supposed to be objective and a check on corruption and criminal behavior in government at least some of the time that makes my stomach turn. If this thing ever turns into a civil war I pray I live long enough to see the alphabet media HQ's in NY burned to the ground and they get their just deserts in the end like the treasonous vermin they are.
TLP| 10.24.12 @ 1:31PM
Contest on Friday.
I have a feeling that you'll do well.
Oldefarte| 10.24.12 @ 9:08PM
After that, if possible PLEASE DO SOMETHING SIMILAR ABOUT WISC JACK, since his blogging """"""STUPIDLY""""" drives me up the wall and sometimes through it as well!!!!!!!!
Joellen| 10.24.12 @ 7:49AM
Obama's nameless war with a nameless enemy, well dont tell anyone, but the nameless enemy is the American People and the Constitution of the United States of America. But dont tell anyone till after the election when he'll have more flexability.
TLP| 10.24.12 @ 1:33PM
I will relay your message to Vladimir.
Joellen| 10.24.12 @ 4:52PM
Since I won the contest last week, can I still enter this week?
TLP| 10.24.12 @ 6:13PM
No.
TLP| 10.24.12 @ 6:14PM
I mean, Yes.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.24.12 @ 7:51AM
On the topic of Al Qaeda, it is important to note that it means "the Base". It was established to provide a platform for those who wish to "advance Islam" through attacks. This article suggests they're getting some help in that regard, funded by the taxpayers.
Stephie| 10.24.12 @ 8:06AM
I pray daily for the deliverance of our nation from this evil freak, his wife and muslim terrorist minions.
As he said in his latest email beg letter, "moochelle and I will be fine" if we don't win.
Like we're worried how they will be when they are run out on a rail? Never has there been such a self absorbed president. Except for Slick Willy of course.
Occam's Tool| 10.24.12 @ 11:18AM
He's going to Hawaii or France when he loses (not if).
Louis Jenkins| 10.24.12 @ 9:12AM
All of this mumbo-jumbo. Can't call Islam for what it is- a pedophelic, killing cult, that despises all Americans. A society that hates women, yet keeps them around for entertainment, and birthing more suicide belt wearing victims, victims that are raised up to believe this killing craze is absolutely normal. But we can't call a spade a spade, we must only reflect on how peaceful the religion is, and turn our society into a poor reflection of it's blood stained legacy.
What is going on? Islam is out to rule the world and kill whomever, or whatever, it has to to gain it's dominance. We need to kick Obama out of office, just to get the language straight!
TLP| 10.24.12 @ 9:50AM
Obviously, you missed my entry into today's: Shut Ins Who Bang Their Heads Against The Wall Show.
It's up above.
Contest on Friday.
pogybait| 10.24.12 @ 9:13AM
We have a corrupted our country by academic hacks and government bureaucrats who have worked for public agencies in its worst form as well as back door socialists and leftist who have ascended in the media, all of which have pushed their agendas under the name of fairness and political correctness. If anything, this current parade of sock puppets that parades as elected officials and journalists can no longer be explained away.
Harry the Horrible| 10.24.12 @ 9:31AM
What really disturbs me is all the Moslems in the Federal Government and all the delicate consideration we are giving Moslems and Islam.
Did we appoint Germans, Japs and Italians, or recent immigrants from those countries into the Federal government during WWII? Did we worry about offending the Fascists, Nazis or Japanese Imperialists?
Hell no. If we didn't like where they lived, we rounded them up and shoved them into concentration camps (relatively comfortable concentration camps, mind you...). And we appropriately demonized our enemies.
What the heck is going on?
nathan| 10.24.12 @ 10:48AM
Well golly gee whiz, no Fifth Amendment niceties for you. Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership speculated that had the Japanese military gained even a temporary lodgement on the west coast the hysteria would have caused those camps to turn into the US version of Auschwitz real fast. Next time you're in Washington there's a monument I suggest you visit near Union Station, it's regarding those "resorts" you speak so admiringly of. I never cease to be amazed at what behavior gets defended here. Fifth Amendment, what's that? Who cares if a lot of those people put in those "resorts" were as American as you are, deprive them of their liberty and property (which many of them never got back by the way) anyway. When I read posts like this I'm reminded just how right James Madison was, "The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home."
Once again, we ignore Ben Franklin at our peril. We ignore Tom Paine at our peril. We ignore Martin Neimollor at our peril. Just because you happen to be white and christian (you are right?)doesn't mean that some day you won't end up in one of those "resorts" too. That NDAA language says Americans too and as we found in Vietnam "information" can mean business rival or someone hitting on the village headman's wife. That was the basis for a lot of executions. So don't think it can't happen to you.
Dai Alanye | 10.24.12 @ 11:15AM
Nathan is vastly over-reacting here. The relocation camps weren't pretty, in fact or as a concept, but they were hardly another form of gulag. Read Michelle Malkin's book on the subject. She has extensively researched the whole subject.
Jacob McCandles| 10.24.12 @ 1:23PM
One can divide the citizenry into two types: Those who are willing to make difficult choices in order to PRESERVE the nation....and those like nathan who are not. He implies that conservative Americans might be the next group to be rounded up. We all know that will not happen. It could be tried, but it will not happen.
nathan| 10.24.12 @ 2:06PM
Simple question. So you simply have no problem with gross violations of the Constitution? Situational ethics in other words right? Because again, the "no person shall be deprived of . . . liberty and property" was clearly violated for these people and they were never compensated for their loss. Not properly. So you're okay with this, the loss they suffered, lack of compensation, all of it. Would be willing to be similarly incarcerated, see your Fifth Amendment rights violated, lose all that you own, never be compensated for the "good of the cause", right? You're prepared, all of you, Mr. McCandles too, to walk it the way you talk it right? Mr. McCandles if under NDAA it's determined that the "difficult choice" means YOU being detained without trial, no lawyer, all of it, we can expect you to accept it without comment, without complaint to "preserve the nation". I mean if it was good enough for those Japanese virtually none guilty of any crimes whatsoever, it should be good enough for you if it ever happens to you right? I expect to see you to say "yes of course" in your next post, thank you.
Jacob McCandles| 10.24.12 @ 3:55PM
I don't think our constitution protects the terroristsIslamists. They live by a different set of laws. With regard to the Japanese, it I feel bad about them being secured during a time of war. But we do what we feel is necessary to preserve our nation in a time of war. If our nation goes away, nathan, you will REALLY be offended by the human rights violations that occur. We often have very difficult choices to make, and I will always side with national security. One could make a well reasoned argument that the Japanese in this country were a direct threat to the mission. You could also argue that Islam is a direct threat to security of this nation. You gotta do what you gotta do.
TLP| 10.24.12 @ 1:38PM
Then again: An Ounce of Prevention is worth a Pound of Cure.
Better Safe than Sorry.
A Bird in the Hand, is better than Two Muslims in the Bush with a Bunch of Dynamite and a Detonator.
Right?
John786| 10.24.12 @ 10:16AM
Oh Deary Deary me. Theres a lifetime of islamophobia in this article. If this evil vitriol was directed at any other community it would not see the light of day. Hatred of the highest order. Obama really loves the Muslims: he apparently personally authorises assasinations of the so called 'islamists' by fire every day. Thousands of dead burnt innocent Pakistani children can testify to that. With friends like that who needs enemies . The US is adrift vis a vi the Muslim world. It's American policy of supporting apartheid in the ME which is the root of the problem. The US is responsible for the death of approx 20 million Muslims through war and sanctions. But still no security. Its time to try something different: peace. And all that treasure and very precious lives taken. Islam is a salvation faith and is the only pristine universal monotheism on offer on this planet- period. Nobody else come close. This war weakens America. For Muslims these are testing times. See you next millennium. Hope you are still around. 67 or bust guys. I see you like to gamble. Peace to all.
TLP| 10.24.12 @ 10:32AM
I agree. It's time to try something different.
I'm thinking Neutron Bombs.
Is that what you were thinking?
Tom Kyba| 10.24.12 @ 10:43AM
Thanks for the clarification. And here I thought the Islamist worms of the earth were the problem. Peace be upon you dipstick.
Occam's Tool| 10.24.12 @ 11:21AM
John786: if someone wants to kill my kid, it is not "phobia" to want to defend myself against them. You want to make my life tremendously more dangerous. You lie everytime you sit at a keyboard. You support child rape and baby murder. You and Jack need to go off and drop dead.
The apartheid in the Middle East is in the Arab and Persian areas.
John786| 10.24.12 @ 11:55AM
Mr occam. Senior occamy. Mr Archimedes. You are a one trick pony. Calling for death on a continues basis must surely rot your brain.67 or bust mr occam. Another gambling man, I see. Oh, it could be so different. I hope there're paying you well. Do you ever tire. No. I thought Not. Not even a good rapture in store for you.
TLP| 10.24.12 @ 1:49PM
Why do you have such a problem with Killing all of these MFers?
By Vaporizing ALL OF THEM, we are granting them their Heart's Desire. Their Greatest Wish.
They Love Death. They can't wait to blow themselves up. They'd rather be a Martyr, than be a Father who goes to Work everyday, and provide for his Family. Their idea of A Better Life, is to strap on a Bomb Belt, and go Kill a Jew.
How many times have we heard them say: "You Love Life. We Love Death"?
They really believe that, by Killing Themselves while Killing Someone Else, they'll be given 72 Mansions, with a Smoking Hot 9 Year Old, and a Goat wearing Lipstick, and some Lingerie, in every one of them.
You know this to be True.
You're one of them.
And, so is your Goat.
chuck| 10.24.12 @ 8:58PM
Allah is Satan. Muslims are worshiping the devil. It is the only explanation to a so-called religion that commands that you tax, enslave, convert, or kill anyone who doesn't believe.
Dai Alanye | 10.24.12 @ 11:25AM
Islam is a fake religion celebrating the pagan god of the new moon, deliberately created by Mohamed as a source of personal power and an unending number of women as chattels. Especially ironic is that he copied extensively from Judaism, and somewhat from Christianity, in patching together his fraudulent theology.
The same sort of criticism could be made of other post-A.D. 40 religions, of course, but none of those -- not even Scientology -- have what amounts to mass murder of non-believers as a tenet.
Other than those few quibbles, I'm sure it's a fine religion, even if its defenders must lie extensively about the United States in order to justify the faith.
John786| 10.24.12 @ 11:31AM
You've been drinking to much Moon-shine.
gene| 10.24.12 @ 12:24PM
In Judeo/Christian Scripture, the rule for Prophecy is that if you are speaking for God, you have to be 100% on target all the time. N.T. Paul would differentiate whether he was speaking for God, or just running off at the mouth with his own opinion. The Muslims claim Jesus was a Great Prophet, but He did not die on the cross. Someone was crucified in His place. If He particpated in this deception, then He COULD NOT be a Prophet from God as Muslims claim that He is.
The Muslims cannot have it both ways.
John786| 10.24.12 @ 7:36PM
Not sure what you are getting at. According to the Quran, God saved Jesus (pbuh) and took him to the heavens. He will return during the end times and help to defeat the Antichrist. He will return as a Muslim. And he will be a staunch defender of( Islamic) monotheism.
KennesawJack| 10.24.12 @ 8:16PM
How many more 9 year old girls does Muhammed get to f**k when that happens?
Alan| 10.24.12 @ 11:43AM
There is a difference between phobia which is fear and loathing which is kind of like trying not to get islam stuck on the bottom of your shoe. To fear something you have to have some kind of respect for what it is and does. Don't go to the overused phobia routine playbook muzzie, it don't fly here very well. As far as "pristine universal monotheism" goes, I thought muzzies couldn't drink alcohol because you must be down to your last half inch of a bottle of Jack D. raghead.
irish19| 10.24.12 @ 11:39PM
I kind of like the term islamonausea myself. They just make me want to vomit.
Houdini| 10.24.12 @ 10:42AM
Right now as a country we are a collection of fools. It's as if during WW2 we brought Tokyo Rose home to run the OSS or asked Goebbels to head CBS. Whether or not Obama is a muslim or not is immaterial, he is a fing marxist at the very least and probably could care less about religion as he cares more about destroying an "unfair" America. A real war is coming unless we get rid of this very dangerous idiot soonest and begin to develop our own energy resources so we may tell the muslim oil countries to piss off.
Frank Drackman| 10.24.12 @ 10:47AM
Hey Homos,
did I tell you my(DNA verified) daughter is a Marine Officer Candiate with an Aviation contract, hmmm let me see, got a photo somewhere...
anyway, she called cause she needs an original cadence to call when she leads her squad(platoon? I don't know, I wasn't man enough to be a Marine)in PT next week...
so I gave her the one I remember, from MY time in the military,
watching "An Officer and A Gentleman"
COBRAS FLYING IN THE SUN
KILLING GOOKS, I MEAN ALKAIDAS IS SO MUCH FUN
20 MIKE MIKE MAKES EM RUN
CAUSE NAPALM STICKS TO KIDS
I MEAN ALKAIDAS
Frank "Satchmo" Drackman
Occam's Tool| 10.24.12 @ 11:23AM
Satchmo:
What a Beautiful World. (I do love your cadence---think about what Satchmo's most famous song was)
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.24.12 @ 12:00PM
Female AOCs? things have changed a bit since I completed the 120th OCC at Quantico 30 years ago, but I've updated (or backdated0 a couple for her usage, should you choose to pass it on (one of my favorites was the "57 Chevy, tank full of gas..." that was featured later in "Heartbreak Ridge", but that was usually not considered appropriate for ladies. Since the repeal of DADT, though, maybe it too is all the rage with a few good women):
my granddaddy was a horse marine
but they cut it from the budget ‘cause the Navy’s goin’ green
so I’m climbin’ in the riggin’ as the nation shows its power
‘cause now our ships are back on wind power
Gimme a hornet gimme a harrier
gimme a ship called an aircraft carrier
fly it off the side and my feet get wet
climbin’ back aboard with my sharp bayonet
Jacob McCandles| 10.24.12 @ 1:27PM
"Hey Homos" .... laughing my arse off on that one. We need more guys around like Frank D.
irish19| 10.24.12 @ 11:40PM
Ummm.....don't quit your day job just yet.
Who Knows?| 10.24.12 @ 11:25AM
What’s the problem? Americans voted for change, didn’t they? So what if BHO faked them out.
Obama The Destroyer, like Clinton The Prick, isn’t the real problem---it’s those darn, pesky people who mark pieces of paper with dark pencils, those voters who CHOOSE the future.
Destruction, or more generally, in terms of physics, disorder or entropy, happened from BOTH inside and outside.
In the Dark Ages, plague spread like crazy, largely due to the lack of sanitation. Pissing and pooping in public---ah, that’s the ticket!
In our own version of the Dark Mind Ages, raw “sewage” continues to overflow and remain toxic, engendered by the MSM, et al. Oh, how few cleaning stations there are! The sludge---to wit, the lies or deadly propaganda---has just about completely reached the tipping point.
Yes, the war between lies and truth is ongoing, and these days the liars have the upper hand, with their truth-telling opponents on the run. The Rush Limbaugh types SEEM to be losing. However---
The lying elite, led by Obama, is a verily small band of brothers, the Destruction Band, but widely dispersed are many millions of truthful “warriors”! The whole brouhaha concerning “Islamists” encapsulates the core of the lie-verses-truth fight to the death.
What a stinking and excremental war we’ve chosen!
TLP| 10.24.12 @ 1:53PM
Who Knows.
Contest on Friday.
Look for the Clues.
Movie Analogies on the News of the day.
Pecos Pete| 10.24.12 @ 5:09PM
Actually, Tim sometimes allows songs and poems, and some stuff I never will comprehend.
gene| 10.24.12 @ 12:15PM
- “War is peace. "
- "Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
- “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
- “We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.”
- “There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
- “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
- “In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.”
George Orwell "1984"
TLP| 10.24.12 @ 1:54PM
- "genes Contest Entries are good."
TLP| 10.24.12 @ 1:54PM
Just kidding, gene.
gene| 10.24.12 @ 12:17PM
"One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world"
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn,
Mars the Avenger| 10.24.12 @ 12:56PM
As a retired military officer involved in IO, as long as we are involved in the Middle East, we have to positively influence populations and/or decisionmakers. To do this effectively, we have to call a spade a spade. Whatever one's feelings on Islam may be, it is a reality over there. In dealing with terrorist enemies, to use the term "jihad" is to validate all they do, their perverted world view and to marginalize those who simply want to be left alone. Our enemies which have hijacked Islam for their own perverted purposes need to be referred to as what they really are - "mufsidun," evil or corrupt people. Although it may not resonate with us, it does with local populations. They engage in "fitna," or discord, among Muslims. Applying these terms to our enemies and their works condemns their current activities as divisive and harmful. It also identifies them with movements and individuals in Islamic history with negative reputations such as the assassins of the Caliph Uthman in 656, who created the first fissure in the political unity of the Muslim community. I know this may not be popular, but there are 1 bn. Muslims out there, and only a minimal percentage who are the mufidun, way less than 1%. It's just plain foolish to alienate the other 99+%, just to feel good.
I see this as being in line with gene's post quoting Solzhenitsyn.
John II| 10.24.12 @ 1:49PM
I'd be interested in learning where you get that "way less than 1%" figure, Marzie. It doesn't jibe too well mathematically with the polls taken in the Middle East regarding the "attitudes" of Muslims toward the jihadists among them.
Myself, I've studied the Qur'an, and it doesn't make me feel good. Unless perhaps you have another figure to share regarding the number of Muslims who have actually read the Qur'an.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.24.12 @ 1:49PM
"I know this may not be popular, but there are 1 bn. Muslims out there, and only a minimal percentage who are the mufidun, way less than 1%."
Say it is half a percent, that's still 5 million who need killing. I'll be happy to call them mufidun, if those who aren't mufidun step aside, shut up and let us kill those that are.
TLP| 10.24.12 @ 1:58PM
I don't know.
I remember seeing ALL OF THEM - including the ones in this Country - Dancing in the Streets and handing out Candy and Pastries, on 911.
REMEMBER?
Cause, I sure the Hell do.
John II| 10.24.12 @ 2:16PM
Right. And there were never close to that many Nazis in Nazi Germany--but a whole nation filled with willing and ready opportunists and accomplices.
Alan| 10.24.12 @ 3:03PM
Better get a reality check Mars,in history its your 1% who put the gun and sword into the hands of the 99% that put the bullet in your head or the sword in your intestines on the battlefield. Most of that 99% just need their marching orders by that 1% because when it comes down to it that 99% is going to follow the orders of that 1% and your anti-alienation program goes right out the window. Why? Because in their case if it comes down killing us or their 1% overlords its going to be us!
Mars the Avenger| 10.24.12 @ 4:02PM
After 30 years as a Marine infantry officer, I've had more than my share of "reality checks," Alan, perhaps more than you may know. I don't dispute the idea of it being us or them, but are we going to go ahead and kill 1 bn people outright? I am not advocating kissing anyone's ass in this matter, but there is a time for kinetic action and a time for non-kinetic action. When the non-kinetic fails, then kinetic is your remaining COA.
Mars the Avenger| 10.24.12 @ 4:03PM
Then, you kill them all and let Allah sort them out.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.24.12 @ 5:00PM
30 years as an 0302, eh? I don't know if you observed the post above about the 120th OCC at what was then known as MCDEC, but if you don't mind, when we you at TBS?
Mars the Avenger| 10.25.12 @ 12:25PM
Ah, MCDEC, now known as MCCDC. TBS class 7-75, Hotel Co.
Alan| 10.24.12 @ 5:06PM
No offense intended Mars, but ultimately thats what it will come down to sooner or later.
TLP| 10.24.12 @ 6:18PM
Exactly.
Whatever they get?
They had it coming.
What's the problem?
cicero| 10.24.12 @ 3:15PM
There is a problem with both parties at this point. Even Romney and the Repubs are clamorring for intervention in Syria, although not with boots. For some reason, nobody wants to admit the obvious. The Islamist radicals were being held somewhat under control by the dictators in the middle east. If they (the Brotherhood) got too frisky, they werre rounded up, inprisoned, and sometimes hanged. The random acts of terrorism were usually committed somewhere else. If they blew up things at home, they were rounded up, tortured, and disposed of.
In our genious, we decided that the street riots were some magical event that our press dubbed "The Arab spring". How quaint. We then backed the street gangs, because they called us on their cell phones and spoke in English. Now that the dictators are gone, all controls are off. The only question now is who will end up in the vacant chairs. It seems that all of the elected heads of state just happen to be members of the Muslim Brotherhood. They have a few more states to go - Yemen, Syria, Saudi Arabia . . . Unless and until the West gets its collective head out twixt the cheeks of is collective derriere, the consolidation of Islam will be ccompleted in the near future.
At that point, the fun begins.
JP| 10.24.12 @ 4:18PM
You can partially blame Bush and the GOP for this deadly "abstract" war. President Bush WOT (War on Terror) signaled to the world that the US was chasing an emphemra (terrorism) and not nation states whose actions lead to the deat of Americans and harm to our interests.
And to this day, most Americans are loathe to admit that we are in fact at war with Islam, and the enablers of jihad. President Obama just goes the final mile - he even refuses for political reasons there is even a thing called terrorism.
Mitt will probably do no better. Baring another devastating attack on US soil, we are bound to give more ground. Whether Iran gets their nukes or not, violent Islam will continue to spread. Look at the concessions the Philippines have made recently, as well as the spread of jihad across North Africa.
Seek| 10.24.12 @ 4:33PM
Prof. Mandel's article was very good, but one facet rankled: his reference, a la Daniel Pipes, to "Islamists." Typically, those who employ this term believe Islamists to be "bad" Muslims, the crazy extremists, as opposed to the "good" Muslims, who are capable of assimilation into Western societies.
I argue, contrarily, that ALL Muslims effectively are Islamists. That is, political terror is of a piece with culture and theology. There is, for all intents and purposes, no "moderate" Islamic tradition. Islam, by its very nature, is radicalism. And it kills, too.
btims86| 10.24.12 @ 5:22PM
Correct. There is no such thing as a "moderate Muslim". If they are a Muslim and if they are observant, then they are by nature, radical.
The best thing the West could do is reduce Muslim immigration.
btims86| 10.24.12 @ 5:20PM
Yet no one brings up the obvious.......no one in political power that is.
Stop or at least reduce Moooooslim immigration.
More Moooooslims = more Sharia Law.
Aaron Investigates | 10.28.12 @ 9:48PM
Sometimes thoughts just hit you as you read the various articles looking at the same event from different angles. In this case....The Administration effectively removed the secular, not to defend Ghaddifi, government, ostensibly to install something better. Now the Administration pulls its punches and acts in other ways to make sure that "better government" toes the Islamic Fundamentalist line...Everything going according to plan in Egypt, but elsewhere there still seems to be some resistance to this idea of a caliph state so the newly improved US Government must step in, or leave it alone, depending on the circumstances.
Actually I guess that was J Lord's point in his article also published here on the Spectator.